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EP3363224B1 - Transmissions en liaison montante améliorées dans des cellules sans licence avec des décalages de temporisation de transmission supplémentaires - Google Patents

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EP3363224B1
EP3363224B1 EP16778835.5A EP16778835A EP3363224B1 EP 3363224 B1 EP3363224 B1 EP 3363224B1 EP 16778835 A EP16778835 A EP 16778835A EP 3363224 B1 EP3363224 B1 EP 3363224B1
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  • the present disclosure relates to a radio base station for scheduling uplink transmissions and to a user equipment for performing the scheduled uplink transmission, as well as methods for operating respectively the radio base station and the user equipment.
  • the present disclosure is also providing a corresponding system comprising the user equipment and a radio base station.
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • High-Speed Downlink Packet Access HSDPA
  • HSUPA High Speed Uplink Packet Access
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • LTE Long-Term Evolution
  • UTRA Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access
  • UTRAN evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
  • LTE Rel. 8 The LTE system represents efficient packet-based radio access and radio access networks that provide full IP-based functionalities with low latency and low cost.
  • scalable multiple transmission bandwidths are specified such as 1.4, 3.0, 5.0, 10.0, 15.0, and 20.0 MHz, in order to achieve flexible system deployment using a given spectrum.
  • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM-based radio access was adopted because of its inherent immunity to multipath interference (MPI) due to a low symbol rate, the use of a cyclic prefix (CP) and its affinity to different transmission bandwidth arrangements.
  • MPI multipath interference
  • CP cyclic prefix
  • SC-FDMA Single-carrier frequency division multiple access
  • UE user equipment
  • Many key packet radio access techniques are employed including multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel transmission techniques and a highly efficient control signaling structure is achieved in LTE Rel. 8/9.
  • the E-UTRAN consists of an eNodeB, providing the E-UTRA user plane (PDCP/RLC/MAC/PHY) and control plane (RRC) protocol terminations towards the user equipment (UE).
  • the eNodeB hosts the Physical (PHY), Medium Access Control (MAC), Radio Link Control (RLC) and Packet Data Control Protocol (PDCP) layers that include the functionality of user-plane header compression and encryption. It also offers Radio Resource Control (RRC) functionality corresponding to the control plane.
  • RRC Radio Resource Control
  • the eNodeBs are interconnected with each other by means of the X2 interface.
  • the eNodeBs are also connected by means of the S1 interface to the EPC (Evolved Packet Core), more specifically to the MME (Mobility Management Entity) by means of the S1-MME and to the Serving Gateway (SGW) by means of the S1-U.
  • EPC Evolved Packet Core
  • MME Mobility Management Entity
  • SGW Serving Gateway
  • the S1 interface supports a many-to-many relation between MMEs/Serving Gateways and eNodeBs.
  • the SGW routes and forwards user data packets, while also acting as the mobility anchor for the user plane during inter-eNodeB handovers and as the anchor for mobility between LTE and other 3GPP technologies (terminating S4 interface and relaying the traffic between 2G/3G systems and PDN GW).
  • the SGW terminates the downlink data path and triggers paging when downlink data arrives for the user equipment. It manages and stores user equipment contexts, e.g. parameters of the IP bearer service, or network internal routing information. It also performs replication of the user traffic in case of lawful interception.
  • user equipment contexts e.g. parameters of the IP bearer service, or network internal routing information. It also performs replication of the user traffic in case of lawful interception.
  • the MME is the key control-node for the LTE access-network. It is responsible for idle-mode user equipment tracking and paging procedure including retransmissions. It is involved in the bearer activation/deactivation process and is also responsible for choosing the SGW for a user equipment at the initial attach and at the time of intra-LTE handover involving Core Network (CN) node relocation. It is responsible for authenticating the user (by interacting with the HSS).
  • NAS Non-Access Stratum
  • the Non-Access Stratum (NAS) signaling terminates at the MME, and it is also responsible for the generation and allocation of temporary identities to user equipments. It checks the authorization of the user equipment to camp on the service provider's Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) and enforces user equipment roaming restrictions.
  • PLMN Public Land Mobile Network
  • the MME is the termination point in the network for ciphering/integrity protection for NAS signaling and handles the security key management. Lawful interception of signaling is also supported by the MME.
  • the MME also provides the control plane function for mobility between LTE and 2G/3G access networks with the S3 interface terminating at the MME from the SGSN.
  • the MME also terminates the S6a interface towards the home HSS for roaming user equipments.
  • the downlink component carrier of a 3GPP LTE system is subdivided in the time-frequency domain in so-called subframes.
  • each subframe is divided into two downlink slots as shown in Fig. 2 , wherein the first downlink slot comprises the control channel region (PDCCH region) within the first OFDM symbols.
  • Each subframe consists of a give number of OFDM symbols in the time domain (12 or 14 OFDM symbols in 3GPP LTE (Release 8)), wherein each OFDM symbol spans over the entire bandwidth of the component carrier.
  • the OFDM symbols thus each consist of a number of modulation symbols transmitted on respective subcarriers.
  • N RB DL is the number of resource blocks within the bandwidth.
  • a physical resource block is defined as consecutive OFDM symbols in the time domain (e.g. 7 OFDM symbols) and consecutive subcarriers in the frequency domain as exemplified in Fig. 2 (e.g. 12 subcarriers for a component carrier).
  • a physical resource block thus consists of resource elements, corresponding to one slot in the time domain and 180 kHz in the frequency domain (for further details on the downlink resource grid, see for example 3GPP TS 36.211, "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical Channels and Modulation (Release 8)", current version 12.6.0, section 6.2, available at http://www.3gpp.org).
  • E-UTRA Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access
  • R-UTRA Physical Channels and Modulation
  • One subframe consists of two slots, so that there are 14 OFDM symbols in a subframe when a so-called "normal” CP (cyclic prefix) is used, and 12 OFDM symbols in a subframe when a so-called “extended” CP is used.
  • the time-frequency resources equivalent to the same consecutive subcarriers spanning a full subframe is called a "resource block pair", or equivalent "RB pair” or “PRB pair”.
  • component carrier refers to a combination of several resource blocks in the frequency domain. In future releases of LTE, the term “component carrier” is no longer used; instead, the terminology is changed to "cell”, which refers to a combination of downlink and optionally uplink resources.
  • the linking between the carrier frequency of the downlink resources and the carrier frequency of the uplink resources is indicated in the system information transmitted on the downlink resources.
  • the frequency spectrum for IMT-Advanced was decided at the World Radio communication Conference 2007 (WRC-07). Although the overall frequency spectrum for IMT-Advanced was decided, the actual available frequency bandwidth is different according to each region or country. Following the decision on the available frequency spectrum outline, however, standardization of a radio interface started in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).
  • 3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
  • the bandwidth that the LTE-Advanced system is able to support is 100 MHz, while an LTE system can only support 20MHz.
  • the lack of radio spectrum has become a bottleneck of the development of wireless networks, and as a result it is difficult to find a spectrum band which is wide enough for the LTE-Advanced system. Consequently, it is urgent to find a way to gain a wider radio spectrum band, wherein a possible answer is the carrier aggregation functionality.
  • two or more component carriers are aggregated in order to support wider transmission bandwidths up to 100MHz.
  • Several cells in the LTE system are aggregated into one wider channel in the LTE-Advanced system which is wide enough for 100 MHz even though these cells in LTE may be in different frequency bands.
  • All component carriers can be configured to be LTE Rel. 8/9 compatible, at least when the bandwidth of a component carrier does not exceed the supported bandwidth of an LTE Rel. 8/9 cell.
  • Not all component carriers aggregated by a user equipment may necessarily be Rel. 8/9 compatible.
  • Existing mechanisms e.g. barring
  • a user equipment may simultaneously receive or transmit on one or multiple component carriers (corresponding to multiple serving cells) depending on its capabilities.
  • An LTE-A Rel. 10 user equipment with reception and/or transmission capabilities for carrier aggregation can simultaneously receive and/or transmit on multiple serving cells, whereas an LTE Rel. 8/9 user equipment can receive and transmit on a single serving cell only, provided that the structure of the component carrier follows the Rel. 8/9 specifications.
  • Carrier aggregation is supported for both contiguous and non-contiguous component carriers with each component carrier limited to a maximum of 110 Resource Blocks in the frequency domain (using the 3GPP LTE (Release 8/9) numerology).
  • a 3GPP LTE-A (Release 10)-compatible user equipment to aggregate a different number of component carriers originating from the same eNodeB (base station) and of possibly different bandwidths in the uplink and the downlink.
  • the number of downlink component carriers that can be configured depends on the downlink aggregation capability of the UE.
  • the number of uplink component carriers that can be configured depends on the uplink aggregation capability of the UE. It may currently not be possible to configure a mobile terminal with more uplink component carriers than downlink component carriers. In a typical TDD deployment the number of component carriers and the bandwidth of each component carrier in uplink and downlink is the same. Component carriers originating from the same eNodeB need not provide the same coverage.
  • the spacing between centre frequencies of contiguously aggregated component carriers shall be a multiple of 300 kHz. This is in order to be compatible with the 100 kHz frequency raster of 3GPP LTE (Release 8/9) and at the same time to preserve orthogonality of the subcarriers with 15 kHz spacing. Depending on the aggregation scenario, the n ⁇ 300 kHz spacing can be facilitated by insertion of a low number of unused subcarriers between contiguous component carriers.
  • the mobile terminal When carrier aggregation is configured, the mobile terminal only has one RRC connection with the network.
  • one cell At RRC connection establishment/re-establishment, one cell provides the security input (one ECGI, one PCI and one ARFCN) and the non-access stratum mobility information (e.g. TAI) similarly as in LTE Rel. 8/9.
  • the component carrier corresponding to that cell is referred to as the downlink Primary Cell (PCell).
  • PCell downlink Primary Cell
  • DL PCell downlink PCell
  • UL PCell uplink PCell
  • SCells Secondary Cells
  • carriers of the SCell being the Downlink Secondary Component Carrier (DL SCC) and Uplink Secondary Component Carrier (UL SCC).
  • DL SCC Downlink Secondary Component Carrier
  • UL SCC Uplink Secondary Component Carrier
  • RRC The configuration and reconfiguration, as well as addition and removal, of component carriers can be performed by RRC. Activation and deactivation is done e.g. via MAC control elements.
  • RRC can also add, remove, or reconfigure SCells for usage in the target cell.
  • dedicated RRC signaling is used for sending the system information of the SCell, the information being necessary for transmission/reception (similarly as in Rel-8/9 for handover).
  • Each SCell is configured with a serving cell index, when the SCell is added to one UE; PCell has always the serving cell index 0.
  • a user equipment When a user equipment is configured with carrier aggregation there is at least one pair of uplink and downlink component carriers that is always active.
  • the downlink component carrier of that pair might be also referred to as 'DL anchor carrier'. Same applies also for the uplink.
  • carrier aggregation When carrier aggregation is configured, a user equipment may be scheduled on multiple component carriers simultaneously, but at most one random access procedure shall be ongoing at any time.
  • Cross-carrier scheduling allows the PDCCH of a component carrier to schedule resources on another component carrier. For this purpose a component carrier identification field is introduced in the respective DCI (Downlink Control Information) formats, called CIF.
  • DCI Downlink Control Information
  • a linking, established by RRC signaling, between uplink and downlink component carriers allows identifying the uplink component carrier for which the grant applies when there is no cross-carrier scheduling.
  • the linkage of downlink component carriers to uplink component carrier does not necessarily need to be one to one. In other words, more than one downlink component carrier can link to the same uplink component carrier. At the same time, a downlink component carrier can only link to one uplink component carrier.
  • a MAC function in the eNodeB refers to scheduling, by which the eNB distributes the available radio resources in one cell among the UEs and among the radio bearers for each UE.
  • the eNodeB allocates the downlink and uplink resources to each UE based on respectively the downlink data buffered in the eNodeB and based on buffer status reports (BSRs) received from the UE.
  • BSRs buffer status reports
  • the eNodeB considers the QoS requirements of each configured radio bearer and selects the size of the MAC PDU.
  • the usual mode of scheduling is dynamic scheduling, by means of downlink grant/assignment messages (DCIs) for the allocation of downlink transmission resources and uplink grant/assignment messages for the allocation of uplink transmission resources. They are transmitted on the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) using a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) to identify the intended UE.
  • DCIs downlink grant/assignment messages
  • C-RNTI cell radio network temporary identifier
  • persistent scheduling is defined, which enables radio resources to be semi-statically configured and allocated to a UE for a longer time period than one subframe, thus avoiding the need for specific downlink assignment messages or uplink grant messages over the PDCCH for each subframe.
  • RRC signaling indicates the resource allocation interval at which the radio resources are periodically assigned.
  • the PDCCH When the PDCCH is used to configure or reconfigure a persistent schedule, it is necessary to distinguish the scheduling messages which apply to a persistent schedule from those used for dynamic scheduling.
  • a special scheduling identity is used, known as the semi-persistent scheduling C-RNTI, SPS-C-RNTI, which for each UE is different from the C-RNTI used for dynamic scheduling messages.
  • L1/L2 control signaling is transmitted on the downlink along with the data.
  • L1/L2 control signaling is multiplexed with the downlink data in a subframe, assuming that the user allocation can change from subframe to subframe.
  • user allocation might also be performed on a TTI (Transmission Time Interval) basis, where the TTI length can be a multiple of the subframes.
  • TTI length may be fixed in a service area for all users, may be different for different users, or may even by dynamic for each user.
  • the L1/2 control signaling needs only be transmitted once per TTI. Without loss of generality, the following assumes that a TTI is equivalent to one subframe.
  • the L1/L2 control signaling is transmitted on the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH).
  • PDCCH Physical Downlink Control Channel
  • a PDCCH carries a message as a Downlink Control Information (DCI), which in most cases includes resource assignments and other control information for a mobile terminal or groups of UEs.
  • DCI Downlink Control Information
  • several PDCCHs can be transmitted in one subframe.
  • Downlink control information occurs in several formats that differ in overall size and also in the information contained in their fields.
  • the different DCI formats that are currently defined for LTE are described in detail in 3GPP TS 36.212, "Multiplexing and channel coding", section 5.3.3.1 (current version v12.6.0 available at http://www.3gpp.org and incorporated herein by reference).
  • For detailed information regarding the DCI formats and the particular information that is transmitted in the DCI please refer to the mentioned technical standard or to LTE - The UMTS Long Term Evolution - From Theory to Practice, Edited by Stefanie Sesia, Issam Toufik, Matthew Baker, Chapter 9.3, incorporated herein by reference. Additional formats may be defined in the future.
  • L1/L2 control signaling is transmitted on the downlink along with the data.
  • L1/L2 control signaling is multiplexed with the downlink data in a subframe, assuming that the user allocation can change from subframe to subframe.
  • user allocation might also be performed on a TTI (Transmission Time Interval) basis, where the TTI length can be a multiple of the subframes.
  • TTI length may be fixed in a service area for all users, may be different for different users, or may even by dynamic for each user.
  • the L1/2 control signaling needs only be transmitted once per TTI. Without loss of generality, the following assumes that a TTI is equivalent to one subframe.
  • the L1/L2 control signaling is transmitted on the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH).
  • PDCCH Physical Downlink Control Channel
  • a PDCCH carries a message as a Downlink Control Information (DCI), which in most cases includes resource assignments and other control information for a mobile terminal or groups of UEs.
  • DCI Downlink Control Information
  • several PDCCHs can be transmitted in one subframe.
  • 3GPP LTE assignments for uplink data transmissions, also referred to as uplink scheduling grants or uplink resource assignments, are also transmitted on the PDCCH.
  • 3GPP Release 11 introduced an EPDCCH that fulfills basically the same function as the PDCCH, i.e. conveys L1/L2 control signalling, even though the detailed transmission methods are different from the PDCCH. Further details can be found in the current versions of 3GPP TS 36.211 and 36.213, incorporated herein by reference. Consequently, most items outlined in the background and the embodiments apply to PDCCH as well as EPDCCH, or other means of conveying L1/L2 control signals, unless specifically noted.
  • the information sent in the L1/L2 control signaling for assigning uplink or downlink radio resources can be categorized to the following items:
  • Downlink control information occurs in several formats that differ in overall size and also in the information contained in their fields as mentioned above.
  • the different DCI formats that are currently defined for LTE are as follows.
  • SC-FDMA single-carrier frequency division multiple access
  • Uplink orthogonality is maintained by ensuring that the transmissions from different user equipments in a cell are time-aligned at the receiver of the eNodeB. This avoids intra-cell interference occurring, both between user equipments assigned to transmit in consecutive sub-frames and between user equipments transmitting on adjacent subcarriers.
  • Time alignment of the uplink transmissions is achieved by applying a timing advance at the user equipment's transmitter, relative to the received downlink timing as exemplified in Fig. 3 and 4 . The main role of this is to counteract differing propagation delays between different user equipments.
  • Fig. 3 illustrates the misalignment of the uplink transmissions from two mobile terminals in case no uplink timing alignments is performed, such that the eNodeB receives the respective uplink transmissions from the two mobile terminals at different timings.
  • Fig. 4 in contrast thereto illustrates synchronized uplink transmissions for two mobile terminals.
  • the uplink timing alignment is performed by each mobile terminal and applied to the uplink transmissions such that at the eNodeB the uplink transmissions from the two mobile terminals arrive at substantially the same timing.
  • the user equipment specific timing advance determines therefore the uplink transmission timing from user equipment point of view.
  • the reference for the timing advance is the downlink subframe boundary timing as seen from user equipment point of view as shown in Fig. 4 .
  • the initial timing advance is set by means of the random access procedure as described below.
  • the user equipment transmits a random access preamble based on which the eNodeB can estimate the uplink timing.
  • the eNodeB responds with an 11-bit initial timing advance command contained within the Random Access Response (RAR) message.
  • RAR Random Access Response
  • the timing advance is updated from time to time to counteract changes in the arrival time of the uplink signals at the eNodeB.
  • the eNodeB may measure any uplink signal which is useful. The details of the uplink timing measurements at the eNodeB are not specified, but left to the implementation of the eNodeB.
  • the timing advance update commands are generated at the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer in the eNodeB and transmitted to the user equipment as MAC control elements which may be multiplexed together with data on the Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH).
  • the update commands Like the initial timing advance command in the response to the Random Access Channel (RACH) preamble, the update commands have a granularity of 0.52 ⁇ s (corresponding to 16 x Ts, where Ts is the basic LTE air interface time unit of 1/(15000 x 2048) seconds).
  • the range of the update commands is ⁇ 16 ⁇ s, allowing a step change in uplink timing equivalent to the length of the extended cyclic prefix. They would typically not be sent more frequently than about every 2 seconds. In practice, fast updates are unlikely to be necessary, as even for a user equipment moving at 500 km/h the change in round-trip path length is not more than 278 m/s, corresponding to a change in round-trip time of 0.93 ⁇ s/s.
  • the eNodeB balances the overhead of sending regular timing update commands to all the UEs in the cell against a UE's ability to transmit quickly when data arrives in its transmit buffer.
  • the eNodeB therefore configures a timer for each user equipment, which the user equipment restarts each time a timing advance update is received. In case the user equipment does not receive another timing advance update before the timer expires, it must then consider that it has lost uplink synchronization (see also section 5.2 of 3GPP TS 36.321, "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol specification", version 12.7.0, available at http://www.3gpp.org and incorporated herein by reference).
  • E-UTRA Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access
  • MAC Medium Access Control
  • the UE in order to avoid the risk of generating interference to uplink transmissions from other user equipments, the UE is not permitted to make uplink transmissions of any sort (except the transmission of a random access preamble) and needs to revert to the initial timing alignment procedure in order to restore the uplink timing.
  • the user equipment Upon reception of a timing advance command, the user equipment shall adjust its uplink transmission timing for PUCCH/PUSCH/SRS of the primary cell.
  • the timing advance command indicates the change of the uplink timing relative to the current uplink timing as multiples of 16 Ts.
  • uplink timing synchronization is performed for the PCell, e.g. by RACH procedure on PCell, and the UE uses the same uplink timing for uplink transmissions on aggregated SCells. Since Release 11, uplink component cells can be aggregated from different bands; they can therefore experience different channel, interference and coverage characteristics. Deployment scenarios with frequency-selective repeaters or remote radio heads may furthermore require a separate timing advance for certain serving cells due to different propagation delays among the aggregated serving cells.
  • Timing advance for each aggregated serving cell, Cells are therefore grouped, and each group has a separate timing advance.
  • Essentially (serving) cells having UL to which the same TA applies are grouped into a so called TA group.
  • Each TA group contains at least one serving cell with configured uplink, and the mapping of each serving cell to a TA group is configured by the serving eNB with RRC signaling.
  • the eNB When an SCell is configured for aggregation, the eNB will assign the SCell to a TA group.
  • the mapping between SCell and TA group may be reconfigured by RRC signaling.
  • a UE supporting multiple TAs is required to support at least two TA groups; i.e. one TA group containing the PCell (pTAG) and one or more TA groups not containing the SCell (sTAG).
  • LTE can operate in Frequency-Division-Duplex (FDD) and Time-Division-Duplex (TDD) modes in a harmonized framework, designed also to support the evolution of TD-SCDMA (Time-Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access).
  • FDD Frequency-Division-Duplex
  • TDD Time-Division-Duplex
  • TD-SCDMA Time-Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access
  • duplex refers to bidirectional communication between two devices, distinct from unidirectional communication. In the bidirectional case, transmissions over the link in each direction may take place at the same time (“full duplex”) or at mutually exclusive times (“half duplex").
  • RBs and REs For TDD in the unpaired radio spectrum, the basic structure of RBs and REs is depicted in Fig. 2 , but only a subset of the subframes of a radio frame are available for downlink transmissions; the remaining subframes are used for uplink transmissions, or for special subframes. Special subframes are important to allow uplink transmission timings to be advanced, so as to make sure that transmitted signals from the UEs (i.e. uplink) arrive roughly at the same time at the eNodeB.
  • guard time is defined in the special subframe.
  • the guard time for a far UE needs to be longer than for a near UE.
  • This TDD structure is known as "Frame Structure Type 2" in 3GPP LTE Release 8 and later, of which seven different uplink-downlink configurations are defined, which allow a variety of downlink-uplink ratios and switching periodicities.
  • Fig. 5 illustrates the Table with the 7 different TDD uplink-downlink configurations, indexed from 0-6, where "D” shall indicate a downlink subframe, "U” an uplink subframe and "S" a special subframe.
  • the seven available TDD uplink-downlink configurations can provide between 40 % and 90% of downlink subframes (when, for simplicity, counting a special subframe as a downlink subframe, since part of such a subframe is available for downlink transmission).
  • Fig. 6 shows the frame structure type 2, particularly for a 5ms switch-point periodicity, i.e. for TDD configurations 0, 1, 2 and 6.
  • Fig. 6 illustrates a radio frame, being 10 ms in length, and the corresponding two half-frames of 5ms each.
  • the radio frame consists of 10 subframes with each 1ms, where each of the subframes is assigned the type of uplink, downlink or special, as defined by one of the Uplink-downlink configurations according to the table of Fig. 5 .
  • subframe #1 is always a Special subframe
  • subframe #6 is a Special subframe for TDD configurations 0, 1, 2 and 6; for TDD configurations 3, 4 and 5, subframe #6 is destined for downlink.
  • Special subframes include three fields: DwPTS (Downlink Pilot Time Slot), the GP (Guard Period) and UpPTS (Uplink Pilot Time Slot).
  • the TDD configuration applied in the system has an impact on many operations performed at the mobile station and base station, such as radio resource management (RRM) measurements, channel state information (CSI) measurements, channel estimations, PDCCH detection and HARQ timings.
  • RRM radio resource management
  • CSI channel state information
  • PDCCH detection PDCCH detection
  • HARQ timings PDCCH detection
  • the UE reads the system information to learn about the TDD configuration in its current cell, i.e. which subframe to monitor for measurement, for CSI measure and report, for time domain filtering to get channel estimation, for PDCCH detection, or for UL/DL ACK/NACK feedback.
  • LAA Licensed-Assisted Access
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • Wi-Fi radio access technologies
  • LAA Licensed Assisted Access
  • CA Rel-12 carrier aggregation
  • the CA framework configuration as explained before comprises a so-called primary cell (PCell) carrier and one or more secondary cell (SCell) carriers.
  • PCell primary cell
  • SCell secondary cell
  • Fig. 7 A very basic scenario is illustrated in Fig. 7 , with a licensed PCell, licensed SCell 1, and various unlicensed SCells 2, 3, and 4 (exemplarily depicted as small cells).
  • the transmission/reception network nodes of unlicensed SCells 2, 3, and 4 could be remote radio heads managed by the eNB or could be nodes that are attached to the network but not managed by the eNB. For simplicity, the connection of these nodes to the eNB or to the network is not explicitly shown in the figure.
  • the basic approach envisioned at 3GPP is that the PCell will be operated on a licensed band while one or more SCells will be operated on unlicensed bands.
  • the benefit of this strategy is that the PCell can be used for reliable transmission of control messages and user data with high quality of service (QoS) demands, such as for example voice and video, while an SCell on unlicensed spectrum might yield, depending on the scenario, to some extent significant QoS reduction due to inevitable coexistence with other RATs.
  • QoS quality of service
  • the Nominal Channel Bandwidth is the widest band of frequencies, inclusive of guard bands, assigned to a single channel.
  • the Occupied Channel Bandwidth is the bandwidth containing 99 % of the power of the signal. A device is permitted to operate in one or more adjacent or non-adjacent channels simultaneously.
  • the listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure is defined as a mechanism by which an equipment applies a clear channel assessment (CCA) check before using the channel.
  • the CCA utilizes at least energy detection to determine the presence or absence of other signals on a channel in order to determine if a channel is occupied or clear, respectively.
  • European and Japanese regulations at the moment mandate the usage of LBT in the unlicensed bands.
  • carrier sensing via LBT is one way for fair sharing of the unlicensed spectrum and hence it is considered to be a vital feature for fair and friendly operation in the unlicensed spectrum in a single global solution framework.
  • DFS is required for certain regions and bands in order to detect interference from radar systems and to avoid co-channel operation with these systems.
  • the intention is furthermore to achieve a near-uniform loading of the spectrum.
  • the DFS operation and corresponding requirements are associated with a master-slave principle.
  • the master shall detect radar interference, can however rely on another device, associated with the master, to implement radar detection.
  • the operation on unlicensed bands at 5-GHz is in most regions limited to rather low transmit power levels compared to the operation on licensed bands which results in small coverage areas. Even if the licensed and unlicensed carriers were to be transmitted with identical power, usually the unlicensed carrier in the 5GHz band would be expected to support a smaller coverage area than a licensed cell in the 2GHz band due to increased path loss and shadowing effects for the signal. A further requirement for certain regions and bands is the use of TPC in order to reduce the average level of interference caused for other devices operating on the same unlicensed band.
  • CCA clear channel Assessment
  • the energy detection for the CCA is performed over the whole channel bandwidth (e.g. 20 MHz in unlicensed bands at 5 GHz), which means that the reception power levels of all subcarriers of an LTE OFDM symbol within that channel contribute to the evaluated energy level at the device that performed the CCA.
  • the ECCA comprises an additional CCA observation time for the duration of a random factor N multiplied by a CCA observation time slot.
  • N defines the number of clear idle slots resulting in a total idle period that has to be observed before initiating a transmission.
  • the Channel Occupancy Time (see ETSI 301 893, under clause 4.8.3.1).
  • the Channel Occupancy Time shall be in the range of 1 ms to 10 ms, where the maximum Channel Occupancy Time could be e.g. 4ms as currently defined for Europe.
  • the UE can perform a new CCA, and so on. This transmission behaviour is schematically illustrated in Fig. 8 , the figure being taken from ETSI EN 301 893 (there Figure 2 : "Example of timing for Frame Based Equipment").
  • Fig. 9 illustrates the timing between a Wi-Fi transmission and LAA UE transmissions on a particular frequency band (unlicensed cell).
  • a CCA gap is at least necessary before the eNB "reserves" the unlicensed cell by e.g. transmitting a reservation signal until the next subframe boundary. Then, the actual LAA DL burst is started. This would similarly apply to an LTE UE which after successfully performing the CCA, would reserve the subframe by transmitting the reservation signal so as to then start the actual LAA UL burst.
  • 3GPP is currently in the process of introducing LAA into the standard.
  • it will be necessary to define how the UEs will be able to perform uplink transmissions while at the same time following the different regulatory requirements, particularly the CCA requirement.
  • US2015/0098437 A1 refers to a technique for communicating in different carriers (e.g. in an unlicensed cell) using different subframe structures having different subframe durations.
  • First and second subframe structures are provided for communications in the LTE unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, the two subframe structures being different.
  • US2014/079015 A1 relates to a method of multiplexing communication signals in a carrier aggregation scenario.
  • a scenario is assumed where two UEs use spatial multiplexing or frequency division multiplexing schemes in order to access a non-licensed band.
  • the use of a carrier perception procedure for the non-licensed band in order to secure uplink transmission resources for each UE is also considered.
  • SAMSUNG "Discussions on LBT for LAA UL", 3GPP DRAFT ; R1-151049 is a document for discussion and decision analysing eNB-based and UE-based CCA mechanism, FBE and LBE channel access mechanism for UL LAA as well as proposing high-level design principles for frame structure to support both UL and DL transmission.
  • Non-limiting and exemplary embodiments provide improved methods, user equipments, and radio base stations involved in scheduling uplink transmissions to be performed by the user equipments.
  • the independent claims provide non-limiting and exemplary embodiments.
  • Advantageous embodiments are subject to the dependent claims.
  • the scheduling of uplink transmissions via unlicensed cells is improved.
  • the following scenario is assumed in the following.
  • the user equipment and a radio base station are connected to each other via at least one unlicensed cell in a mobile communication system.
  • the unlicensed cell may be either operated as a standalone cell or may be assisted by a further licensed cell additionally configured between the user equipment and the radio base station.
  • the user equipment and the radio base station perform a suitable procedure so as to time align the uplink transmission timing that is followed by the user equipment.
  • the user equipment needs to determine a particular point in time at which to perform an uplink transmission.
  • This uplink transmission timing can be adjusted with a suitable procedure such that the uplink transmission is received at the radio base station at a particular desirable time, e.g. at basically the same time as uplink transmissions by other user equipments.
  • the uplink transmission timing is determined by the user equipment based on the downlink reception timing and an additional timing advance as e.g. instructed by the radio base station.
  • the user equipment follows subframe boundaries which basically indicate at which time uplink transmission(s) shall be performed by the user equipment; i.e.
  • the radio base station can thus ensure that the uplink transmissions performed by several user equipments in the coverage area of the radio base station are synchronized and coordinated in such a manner that the uplink transmissions are received at essentially the same time in the radio base station.
  • a suitable procedure for aligning the uplink transmission timing is the timing advance procedure described therein in connection with the LTE standardization.
  • the scheduling of uplink (and downlink) transmissions is assumed to be under control of the radio base station, and the corresponding resource allocation(s) are communicated to the user equipment(s) in the station's coverage area of the unlicensed cell in a suitable manner.
  • the following explanation focuses on the scheduling of uplink transmissions to be performed by user equipments via unlicensed cells.
  • the radio base station as well as the user equipments have to first perform a "Listen-Before-Talk procedure" (including a clear-channel assessment) which is basically a procedure to make sure that the channel is not occupied by another transmission before actually starting the uplink/downlink transmission.
  • a "Listen-Before-Talk procedure" including a clear-channel assessment
  • Wi-Fi nodes may also want to access the unlicensed band.
  • the Listen-Before-Talk procedure fair usage of the unlicensed band between different radio technologies is provided.
  • the user equipments need to successfully finish the CCA determination; otherwise, they would not be able to perform the uplink transmission scheduled by the radio base station.
  • other nodes such as Wi-Fi nodes, need to perform such a clear channel assessment before using the unlicensed cell. Consequently, for a proper functioning it is important to allow for sufficient time to successfully perform the CCA determination.
  • each user equipment has a particular timing for performing uplink transmissions via unlicensed and licensed cells, as assumed above e.g. which is controlled by the radio base station by use of a suitable procedure.
  • the uplink transmission timing at the user equipments can be additionally changed so as to create a time gap between two directly-subsequent uplink transmissions performed by different user equipments. The created time gap after a first uplink burst transmission is usable by a user equipment for successfully performing the clear-channel assessment, before starting its (second) uplink burst transmission.
  • the radio base station schedules various subsequent uplink transmissions, respectively one to a different user equipment
  • a sufficient gap needs to be provided between each of two subsequent uplink transmissions so as to ensure that each of the scheduled user equipments (and not only the first) is able to determine the channel as clear before its own uplink transmission is to start.
  • the shifting of the transmission timing(s) is coordinated among the various user equipments to create the appropriate time gaps with no transmissions within which the user equipment will detect the channel as not being occupied.
  • the additional shifting of the uplink transmission timing can be seen as an additional type of uplink transmission compared to the usual uplink transmission which is time-aligned with the subframe boundaries, i.e. aligned/synchronized with respect to the reception timing (or subframe boundaries) at the radio base station (as the receiving entity of the uplink transmission).
  • an additional type of uplink transmission is introduced by the aspect, namely one for which the start of the uplink transmission is shifted by an amount of time in either direction with respect to the subframe boundaries, i.e. with respect to the normal uplink transmission timing which the user equipment would normally follow (e.g. for transmitting an uplink transmission via a licensed cell).
  • the additional shifting of the uplink transmission according to this additional uplink transmission type is made on top of any timing advance generally performed by the user equipment, e.g. instructed by the radio base station and depending on the location of the user equipment with respect to the radio base station.
  • a time gap is created between two directly subsequent uplink transmissions. For instance, when the start of the uplink transmission is postponed (i.e. delayed in time), a time gap is created in front of the postponed uplink transmission during which the UE can successfully perform the CCA determination before starting said postponed uplink transmission.
  • the start of the uplink transmission is preponed (i.e. advanced in time)
  • the time gap is created after the preponed uplink transmission, and that UE that is subsequently scheduled to perform an uplink transmission immediately after the shifted uplink transmission may successfully finish the CCA determination during set time gap before starting said uplink transmission.
  • the radio base station to schedule two subsequent uplink transmissions to different user equipments while allowing at the same time that both user equipments successfully perform the clear-channel assessment and thus detect the unlicensed channel as free before starting the uplink transmission.
  • additional changes can be implemented for the uplink transmissions performed by the user equipments via unlicensed cells so as to improve and make the creation of time gap for CCA more flexible.
  • the (shifted or not shifted) uplink transmission can be shortened by one or several OFDM symbols (for LTE implementations may also be termed in the following SC-FDMA symbols in view of the uplink technology SC-FMDA is used in the uplink).
  • a normal uplink transmission will at least span all OFDM symbols of one or more subframes, and it is now suggested to shorten this uplink transmission either at the beginning or the end of the uplink transmission, with the effect that the user equipment does not transmit during that OFDM symbol(s) and thus does not occupy the unlicensed cell during that period of time.
  • One possibility to shorten the uplink transmission length is to puncture OFDM symbol(s), which can also be termed muting or nulling as the transmission is transmitted with 0 power during this time.
  • the additional mechanism of shortening an uplink transmission can be equally regarded as introducing another type of uplink transmission, in addition to those two types of uplink transmissions as introduced before, i.e. the normal uplink transmission type spanning a complete subframe duration and being time aligned with the subframe boundaries followed by the user equipment, and the additional uplink transmission type also spanning a complete subframe duration but being additionally offset with respect to the subframe boundaries followed by the user equipment.
  • a further type of uplink transmission would have the characteristic of being shortened (e.g.
  • a still further type of uplink transmission would be shortened (e.g. so as to not span a complete subframe duration) and would in addition be offset with respect to the subframe boundaries followed by the user equipment.
  • the above discussed mechanisms of additionally shifting the uplink transmission timing and of shortening the uplink transmission duration can be used and coordinated in a suitable manner so as to create a sufficient time gap between subsequent uplink transmissions via the unlicensed cell to allow UE(s) to successfully perform a clear channel assessment while at the same time avoiding that unnecessary OFDM symbols are discarded (due to the shortening).
  • Each uplink transmission can be performed according to one of the four types as discussed above, such that the necessary CCA gap is created.
  • Which uplink transmission will be performed according to which uplink transmission type will also depend on the actual uplink transmission sequence that is scheduled to different UEs by the radio base station via the unlicensed cell. For instance, for a sequence of only two subsequent uplink transmissions, i.e. before and after these two subsequent uplink transmissions the unlicensed cell is not used for transmission, a shortening of the uplink transmission (e.g.
  • the first transmission can be performed by one UE without any shortening or additional time offset, while the second uplink transmission can be postponed by the second UE by an amount of time which is sufficient for the second UE to successfully perform the clear channel assessment.
  • An exemplary time offset which allows for sufficient time to successfully perform a clear channel assessment is half the duration of an OFDM symbol.
  • the time offset may also be less or more, as long as the time gap that is created by offsetting the uplink transmission timing is long enough for a successful clear channel assessment.
  • the amount of time to offset the uplink transmission can be for example indicated by the radio base station to the user equipments. It may be the same for all user equipments under control of the radio base station. Also, the amount of time for the offset can be changed semi-statically by the radio base station. Alternatively, the amount of time can be fixed, e.g. in the standard.
  • the UE determines how to perform an uplink transmission, i.e. with/without additional time shift and with/without shortening the uplink transmission.
  • the necessary information is provided by the radio base station to the user equipment, e.g. as part of the usual resource allocation.
  • a type pattern is provided in the UE and the radio base station which defines how to perform an uplink transmission at a particular subframe, such that any UE will determine the type of uplink transmission to perform based on the subframe for which the uplink transmission is scheduled and on the pattern.
  • the techniques disclosed here feature a radio base station for scheduling uplink transmissions for a user equipment.
  • At least one unlicensed cell is configured for communication between the user equipment and the radio base station.
  • the at least one user equipment can perform an uplink transmission via the unlicensed cell according to at least the following different types of uplink transmissions:
  • the radio base station comprises a processor and transmitter, which, in operation, schedule uplink transmissions via the unlicensed cell to the at least one user equipment. Furthermore, the radio base station comprises a receiver, which, in operation, receives the scheduled uplink transmissions from the at least one user equipment. Each of the scheduled uplink transmissions is performed by the at least one user equipment according to one of the different types of uplink transmissions in such a manner that at least between two directly-subsequent uplink transmissions a time gap with no uplink transmission occurs.
  • the techniques disclosed here feature a user equipment for performing uplink transmissions, scheduled by a radio base station.
  • At least one unlicensed cell is configured for communication between the user equipment and the radio base station.
  • the user equipment can perform an uplink transmission via the unlicensed cell according to at least the following different types of uplink transmissions:
  • the user equipment comprises a processor, which in operation, determines one of the types of uplink transmission for a scheduled uplink transmission. Furthermore, the user equipment comprises a transmitter, which in operation, performs the uplink transmission according to the determined type via the unlicensed cell.
  • the techniques disclosed here feature a system comprising at least one user equipment and a radio base station.
  • At least one unlicensed cell is configured for communication between the at least one user equipment and the radio base station.
  • the at least one user equipment can perform an uplink transmission via the unlicensed cell according to at least the following different types of uplink transmissions:
  • the radio base station comprises a processor and transmitter, which, in operation, schedule uplink transmissions via the unlicensed cell to the at least one user equipment.
  • the user equipment comprises a receiver, which in operation, receives a resource assignment from the radio base station scheduling an uplink transmission.
  • the user equipment comprise a processor, which in operation, determines one of the types of uplink transmission for the scheduled uplink transmission.
  • the user equipment comprises a transmitter, which in operation, performs the uplink transmission according to the determined type via the unlicensed cell.
  • the radio base station comprises a receiver, which in operation, receives the scheduled uplink transmissions.
  • Each of the scheduled uplink transmissions is performed by the at least one user equipment according to one of the different types of uplink transmissions in such a manner that at least between two directly-subsequent uplink transmissions a time gap with no uplink transmission occurs.
  • the techniques disclosed here feature a method for operating a user equipment for performing uplink transmissions, scheduled by a radio base station.
  • At least one unlicensed cell is configured for communication between the user equipment and the radio base station.
  • the user equipment can perform an uplink transmission via the unlicensed cell according to at least the following different types of uplink transmissions:
  • the method comprises the following steps performed by the user equipment:
  • the techniques disclosed here feature a method for operating a radio base station for scheduling uplink transmissions for a user equipment.
  • At least one unlicensed cell is configured for communication between the user equipment and the radio base station.
  • the at least one user equipment can perform an uplink transmission via the unlicensed cell according to at least the following different types of uplink transmissions:
  • the method comprises the following steps performed by the radio base station:
  • Each of the scheduled uplink transmissions is performed by the at least one user equipment according to one of the different types of uplink transmissions in such a manner that at least between two directly-subsequent uplink transmissions a time gap with no uplink transmission occurs.
  • a mobile station or mobile node or user terminal or user equipment is a physical entity within a communication network.
  • One node may have several functional entities.
  • a functional entity refers to a software or hardware module that implements and/or offers a predetermined set of functions to other functional entities of a node or the network.
  • Nodes may have one or more interfaces that attach the node to a communication facility or medium over which nodes can communicate.
  • a network entity may have a logical interface attaching the functional entity to a communication facility or medium over which it may communicate with other functional entities or correspondent nodes.
  • radio resources as used in the set of claims and in the application is to be broadly understood as referring to physical radio resources, such as time-frequency resources.
  • unlicensed cell or alternatively “unlicensed carrier” as used in the set of claims and in the application is to be understood broadly as a cell/carrier operated in an unlicensed frequency band, with a particular frequency bandwidth.
  • the term “licensed cell” or alternatively “licensed carrier” as used in the set of claims and in the application is to be understood broadly as a cell/carrier operated in a licensed frequency band, with a particular frequency bandwidth. Exemplarily, these terms are to be understood in the context of 3GPP as of Release 12/13 and the Licensed-Assisted Access Work Item.
  • type of uplink transmission as used in the set of claims in the application is conceptually introduced so as to be able to differentiate between uplink transmissions that differ from one another by applying either one, none or both of the 2 mechanisms discussed in connection with the first embodiment, i.e. the mechanism of additionally introducing a time of set for the uplink transmission via an unlicensed cell and the mechanism of shortening the length of an uplink transmission via an unlicensed cell.
  • the expression "with respect to the subframe boundaries followed by the user equipment” shall indicate that the shifting is performed vis-à-vis the "normal" transmission timing that the UE would have normally followed and which is embodied by the concept of subframe boundaries that are followed by the UE(s) (e.g. which the UE follows for performing uplink transmissions via the licensed cell).
  • the subframe boundaries defined for a user equipment basically indicate a usually-employed timing in the UE for e.g. starting an uplink transmission.
  • LAA licensed-assisted access
  • the coverage area of such a cell will be rather limited e.g. due to transmit power restrictions inflicted on the unlicensed band operation by regulatory requirements as explained in the background section. It can therefore be expected that a typical maximum coverage area radius of such a small cell will be between 100 to 200 m.
  • the TA granularity of 0.52 ⁇ s corresponds to the propagation delay caused by the distance of 156 m between eNB and UE, it is reasonable to assume the same small TA value (e.g. 0 or 1) (almost) for all UEs associated to that unlicensed cell.
  • DCI downlink control information
  • PDCCH physical downlink control channel
  • EPDCCH enhanced physical downlink control channel
  • each uplink transmission in the unlicensed band requires a clear channel assessment (CCA) prior to the respective transmission in order to support fair channel access in coexistence with other equipment (such as Wi-Fi nodes) that are operating on the same unlicensed channel.
  • CCA clear channel assessment
  • Fig. 10 illustrates three directly-subsequent uplink transmissions by three different UEs (UE1, UE2, and UE3), each uplink transmission exemplarily spanning a subframe duration.
  • the uplink transmission reference timing to be followed by the user equipment is indicated in the figure by use of the depicted subframe boundaries.
  • the subframe boundaries as illustrated in Fig. 10 shall be assumed to be the points in time when the user equipment should start a uplink transmission scheduled by the eNodeB for said subframe.
  • UE2 would not have been able to perform the uplink transmission do to the failed CCA, and in turn the CCA performed by UE3 would be successful due to the second uplink transmission not having started before (it does not occupy the unlicensed cell).
  • Such a situation is disadvantageous since subsequent uplink transmissions by different UEs would not be possible due to the CCA not being successful; e.g. the first and second uplink transmission in the example illustrated in Fig. 10 . At most, only every second subframe would be usable
  • the LTE nodes may be continuously occupying the unlicensed cell.
  • Wi-Fi nodes will not be able to access the unlicensed cell due to the continuous occupancy of the unlicensed cell by the LLA nodes.
  • the following embodiments may be implemented in the 3GPP LTE-A (Rel.12/13 and later) environment.
  • the various embodiments mainly allow for having an improved uplink transmission scheme.
  • Other functionality i.e. functionality not changed by the various embodiments
  • Other functionality i.e. functionality not changed by the various embodiments
  • functions and procedures defining how the uplink transmission is actually performed e.g. segmentation, modulation, coding, beamforming, multiplexing
  • PDCH Physical Downlink Control Channel
  • DCI down carrier scheduling
  • self scheduling e.g. initial timing advance, timing advance update commands
  • 3GPP is planning to enhance current systems by introducing LAA, licensed-assisted access, including the use of unlicensed cells being operated on channel(s) in the unlicensed frequency spectrum.
  • LAA licensed-assisted access
  • the UE is configured with at least one unlicensed cell and optionally with at least one further licensed cell.
  • Several UEs are communicating with the eNB via the unlicensed cell.
  • the different embodiments also apply to scenarios where the unlicensed cell is operated in a standalone manner (i.e. without being assisted by a corresponding licensed cell).
  • the unlicensed cell can be configured between the eNodeB and the UE in the usual manner as described in the background section. Accordingly, the unlicensed cell is operated on a particular channel in the unlicensed frequency spectrum. As explained in detail in the background section, operation on the unlicensed cell is regulated in many ways, e.g. in Europe according to the European standard ETSI 301 893. Among many things, for European (and also for other regions) the Listen-Before-Talk and the corresponding clear-channel Assessment is currently foreseen to be mandatory for eNBs and UEs before performing transmissions via the unlicensed cell so as to ensure fair coexistence and channel access between Wi-Fi and LTE LAA. Further details on how to perform LBT and CCA are omitted here and instead reference is made to the corresponding passages of the background section describing an exemplary LTE implementation.
  • uplink transmissions to be performed by UEs to the eNB, are scheduled by the eNB in a suitable manner, e.g. in the usual manner as explained in the background section for an LTE implementation.
  • uplink transmissions via the unlicensed cell can be scheduled by transmitting a (E)PDCCH with a DCI either in the associated PCell (cross-carrier scheduling) or in the unlicensed cell (self-scheduling). Further details on the control signaling transmitted to schedule uplink transmissions is omitted at this point, and instead reference is made to the corresponding passages of the background section describing an exemplary LTE implementation.
  • the scenario further assumes that the UEs have an uplink reference timing according to which they perform the uplink transmissions, i.e. according to which they start the uplink transmission. For instance, each of the UEs determines its uplink reference timing relative to the downlink reception timing by additionally applying a timing advance parameter instructed by the eNB, so as to compensate for the different propagation delays between different user equipments.
  • a timing advance parameter instructed by the eNB instructs the UEs its uplink reference timing relative to the downlink reception timing by additionally applying a timing advance parameter instructed by the eNB, so as to compensate for the different propagation delays between different user equipments.
  • the LAA scenario will mainly apply to small cells with a very limited coverage area, no (or only a very small) timing advance might have to be applied by the UEs for transmissions via the unlicensed cell, since the propagation differences are negligible.
  • this normal uplink reference timing can also be described as being given/defined by the subframe boundaries (also for ease of illustration in the figures) which are followed by the user equipment, meaning that the subframe boundaries are to be used by user equipments as the points in time to start an uplink transmission, as explained and illustrated in Fig. 10 .
  • a further assumption made in the following is that a normal cyclic prefix is used in the various scenarios with the result that the corresponding uplink subframes comprise 14 OFDM symbols (may also be termed SC-FDMA symbols, in view of that LTE uses SC-FDMA in the uplink).
  • SC-FDMA symbols in view of that LTE uses SC-FDMA in the uplink.
  • the principles of the first embodiment are equally applicable when using an extended cyclic prefix and thus for a scenario where the uplink subframes comprise 12 OFDM symbols (may also be termed SC-FDMA symbols, in view of that LTE uses SC-FDMA in the uplink).
  • an additional mechanism is implemented which allows to additionally offset the uplink transmission timing of particular uplink transmissions to be performed by a user equipment via the unlicensed cell with the aim to create a time gap (also termed in the following and the figures "CCA gap") between two uplink transmissions during which no transmission is taking place and the UE will have sufficient time to successfully perform a CCA.
  • a time gap also termed in the following and the figures "CCA gap”
  • Fig. 11 is a similar figure as Fig. 4 used for explaining the timing advance in the background section. It should be noted that Fig. 11 is only a conceptual drawing and the extensions and scales used therein are not accurate but serve to explain the first embodiment.
  • the time advance to be applied by the UEs is more than twice the length of a subframe, which however is not likely the case in real implementations and even less for implementations where the LAA unlicensed cell covers only a very limited area.
  • realistic timing advance values for unlicensed small cells reach 1x0.52 us or 2x0.52 us, corresponding to a distance between eNB and UE of 78 m and 156 m, respectively since the timing advance equals two times the propagation delay between eNB and UE and the timing advance granularity is 0.52 us as described in the background section.
  • Fig. 11 illustrates the uplink transmissions from two UEs to the same eNodeB via an unlicensed cell and the corresponding relative transmission and reception timings.
  • Fig. 11 assumes an LAA scenario where the unlicensed cell has a very limited coverage area and consequently where the propagation delays are quite similar (assumed to be the same, but not 0, in the illustration of Fig. 11 ).
  • PD eNB-UE1 and PD eNB-UE2 are assumed to be the same as apparent from the downlink reception timing of the downlink transmission from the eNodeB at UE1 and UE2 and the resulting TA-extent applied by UE1 and UE2.
  • UE1 “Time Aligned UL transmission by UE1 to eNodeB”
  • UE2 “Time Aligned UL transmission by UE2 to eNodeB”
  • UE1 would determine its uplink transmission timing based on the downlink reception timing and the timing advanced value, in the usual manner as illustrated in Fig. 4 .
  • the uplink transmission to be performed by UE1 is additionally offset by a predetermined amount of time as also illustrated in Fig. 11 (see UE1: "UL transmission by UE1 to eNodeB with UL transmission timing offset", "TO").
  • the uplink transmission timing of UE 1 is preponed (i.e. advanced in time) by the amount of time TO with respect to the normally-used uplink transmission timing.
  • the uplink transmission is correspondingly received in the eNodeB as well ahead of time by the amount of time TO.
  • a typical implementation for LAA would extend the uplink frame timing for LTE as described in 3GPP TS 36.211, clause 8.1 by an additional uplink transmission timing shift per UL burst within the UL radio frame.
  • the current shift between DL and UL radio frame timing is given by (N_TA + N_TA_offset) x Ts.
  • N_TA is the timing advance per UE as described in the background section
  • N_TA_offset is an additional fixed offset that is 0 in case of FDD and 624 in case of TDD for all UEs.
  • the enhanced shift based on the embodiment is then given by (N_TA + N_TA_offset + TO(i)) x Ts, where TO(i) is the additional uplink timing offset for UL burst i in order to create the CCA gaps between consecutive LAA UL bursts according to the various implementations of the first embodiment.
  • a time gap of length TO is created between the end of this first uplink transmission and the start of the subsequent uplink transmission to be performed by UE2 as scheduled by the eNodeB (see "CCA gap" arrow in Fig. 11 ).
  • CCA gap the uplink transmission timing
  • UE2 determines the uplink transmission timing by use of the timing advance relative to the downlink reception reference timing in the usual manner.
  • the UE2 is able to successfully finish a CCA determination since UE2 will determine that the unlicensed cell is not (no longer) occupied by the transmission of UE1.
  • the UE2 when performing the necessary CCA determination before starting its own uplink transmission as scheduled by the eNodeB, would determine that the unlicensed cell is occupied, namely by the transmission performed by UE1, and would thus not be allowed to perform its uplink transmission due to the failed CCA (see also Fig. 10 ).
  • the additional timing offset could also have been applied to the second uplink transmission performed by UE2, particularly postponing (i.e. delaying) the second uplink transmission by the time offset TO.
  • the uplink transmission performed by UE 1 would not need to be offset since the necessary time gap for UE2 to perform the CCA would be already created by postponing the second uplink transmission.
  • time gaps are created that are usable by UE(s) (and also Wi-Fi nodes) to perform CCA determinations.
  • the amount of the time offset shall be such that the created time gap is sufficient to finish a CCA determination.
  • the minimum time for Wi-Fi to perform the clear channel assessment is 34 ⁇ s; the minimum time for an LTE UE to complete the clear channel assessment will at least be 20 ⁇ s following the current regulatory requirements in Europe.
  • the exact CCA rules for LAA are still under discussion at 3GPP.
  • the amount of time for the additional uplink transmission offset is known to the UE(s) and eNodeB.
  • a suitable indication can be provided by the eNodeB to the UE(s), e.g. during the establishment of the unlicensed cell using RRC signaling, and/or with the actual resource allocation transmitted from the eNodeB to the UE.
  • Any other suitable means is also possible, such as a pre-configuration or a fixed indication in the standards or USIM card (Universal subscriber identity module).
  • the UE(s) have to know when it shall apply the additional offset to the uplink transmission, i.e. for which uplink transmission(s) and for which not. This can be achieved e.g. by a suitable indication from the eNodeB, e.g. transmitted together with the actual resource allocation scheduled from the eNodeB.
  • one bit within the resource allocation may indicate to the UE whether or not to apply the additional timing offset for the scheduled uplink transmission. In said case, the amount of time would be already known to the user equipment, according to any one of the above discussed options.
  • an uplink transmission pattern could be defined in the UE(s) and eNodeB indicating for each subframe of a radio frame whether (optionally also which time offset) should be applied by a UE that is scheduled by the eNodeB for that particular subframe. Consequently, a UE would determine, based on the uplink transmission pattern and the particular subframe for which it is scheduled, whether it has to additionally offset its uplink transmission timing or not.
  • Fig. 12 illustrates a general diagram of the processing at the UE to be performed for an uplink transmission for an exemplary implementation of the first embodiment.
  • the uplink transmission procedure as illustrated in Fig. 12 is heavily simplified, to focus on the gist as just explained for the first embodiment above.
  • the UE receives a resource allocation to perform an uplink transmission via an unlicensed cell, and correspondingly the UE would have to determine a corresponding uplink transmission timing.
  • the determination of the uplink transmission timing is based on the usual timing advance value as well as on the additional uplink transmission timing of said introduced by this first embodiment.
  • the UE performs the uplink transmission at the time determined by the previous step.
  • the eNodeB schedules an uplink transmission for at least the length of a subframe, i.e. occupying all OFDM (SC-FDMA) symbols in the subframe (i.e. 14 OFDM symbols for the normal cyclic prefix, or 12 OFDM symbols for an extended cyclic prefix).
  • SC-FDMA OFDM
  • the length of a particular uplink transmission may be shortened, e.g. such that it spans less than the complete subframe duration.
  • the shortening is to apply to the last or first subframe thereof.
  • This may be achieved for instance at the UE-side by puncturing one or more of the OFDM symbols of the uplink transmission.
  • an uplink transport block is prepared by the user equipment for a scheduled uplink transmissions under the assumption of a full subframe allocation according to the procedure described in 3GPP TS 36.212, clause 5.2.2, incorporated herein by reference.
  • the additional puncturing (nulling) of the first or last SC-FDMA (i.e. OFDM) symbol will be performed on top of the mapping to physical resources as described in 3GPP TS 36.211, clause 5.3.4, incorporated herein by reference. This is exemplarily illustrated in Fig.
  • the first or last OFDM symbol may be punctured thereby shortening the uplink transmission burst length by the corresponding amount of time. Also more than one OFDM symbol may be punctured from the start or the end of the uplink transmission.
  • a time gap where no transmission is performed (i.e. the unlicensed cell is not occupied), is created in front or after the uplink transmission, which may be used to perform a necessary CCA.
  • each of UEs should have sufficient time to successfully perform the CCA (since unlicensed cell is not occupied) before starting its own (possibly shortened) uplink transmission.
  • puncturing the uplink transmission the redundancy of the encoded is reduced due to the punctured OFDM symbol, and the overall transmission in the subframe becomes less reliable.
  • the mechanism of shortening the uplink transmission length may be combined with the above described mechanism of the additional time offset for the uplink transmission timing so as to achieve an advantageous embodiment as will be explained in the following.
  • These two mechanisms may be selectively applied to particular uplink transmissions of different UEs so as to create the necessary time gaps between subsequent uplink transmissions so as to allow the respective UEs to perform and finish the CCA successfully.
  • which of the two mechanisms, and how these are to be applied by the UE(s) strongly depends on the particular uplink transmission sequence that is scheduled by an eNodeB as will become apparent from the following explanations.
  • the UE(s) it is important for the UE(s) to know how a particular uplink transmission is to be performed via an unlicensed cell, i.e. which of the above introduced mechanisms is to be applied for which uplink transmission.
  • Different implementations of the embodiment are possible on how to control the use of these two mechanisms for the UEs as will be explained in the following examples, which however should not be construed as limiting the invention.
  • the amount of time for the additional uplink transmission timing offset may be specifically indicated per scheduled uplink transmission, or alternatively be configured in the UE by other means.
  • whether or not the UE has to apply the timing offset to a particular uplink transmission may also be indicated specifically by the eNodeB (e.g. as part of the resource allocation for this uplink transmission) or by an uplink transmission type pattern.
  • the same concepts can be applied to implement control of the second mechanism to selectively shorten the length of particular uplink transmissions.
  • the amount (e.g. the number of OFDM symbols) by which the uplink transmission should be shortened may be indicated directly by the eNodeB to the UE for each of particular uplink transmissions, e.g. as part of the resource allocation.
  • the amount of shortening could also be configured in the UE(s) e.g. when setting up the unlicensed cell by use of RRC signaling, or may be preconfigured as a fixed indication in the standard or USIM card.
  • whether or not a particular uplink transmission should be shortened at all can be indicated by the eNodeB to the UE, e.g.
  • the pattern already described in connection with the first mechanism of implementing the timing offset can be extended so as take into account the second mechanism of shortening the uplink transmission length too.
  • the pattern would thus define for each subframe whether the first and/or second mechanism (and possibly which time offset and which shortening) should be applied or not.
  • the UE being scheduled to perform an uplink transmission for a particular subframe, will determine whether and how to apply the first and second mechanism based on this pattern and the particular subframe for which it was scheduled.
  • the UEs under control of the eNodeB shall unequivocally be able to determine how to perform an uplink transmission scheduled by the eNodeB. As explained above, this may be directly indicated by the eNodeB for each and every particular uplink transmission or may be preconfigured in the UE without the eNodeB having to specifically indicate this for each uplink transmission.
  • four combinations of the mechanisms need to be differentiated (see also the 4 different types discussed later) by use of e.g. 2 bits.
  • the uplink resource allocation transmitted from the eNodeB to the UE(s) could be extended by these 2 bits so as to additionally instruct the UE on how to perform the uplink transmission, i.e. on whether or not to apply the first and/or second mechanism as explained above.
  • a new DCI format could be introduced for such an uplink resource allocation, e.g. DCI Format 0A, which may be similar to the DCI Format 0 already defined in the standard, however additionally including a corresponding 2-bit field for the type indication.
  • a not-used field of the DCI Format 0 could be reused in said respect; for instance the RBA field may not be used when assuming that the LAA uplink allocations will always be wideband, such that the bits of the RBA field could be used to indicate which mechanism(s) to apply to the uplink transmission. Thus, no new DCI format needs to be introduced.
  • Fig. 13 - 16 illustrate the various different types of uplink transmissions and variations thereof, following the exemplary nomenclature given by the above table.
  • Fig. 13 illustrates a normal uplink transmission (exemplarily termed Type A) which is neither shortened nor offset in relation to its usual uplink transmission timing.
  • Type A a normal uplink transmission
  • the UE when performing an uplink transmission according to Type A, the UE would follow the timing as given by its subframe boundaries, i.e. would determine the uplink transmission timing based on the downlink reception timing as well as on the timing advance (if instructed by the eNodeB) as explained above.
  • Fig. 14 illustrates uplink transmissions which are offset by a particular amount of time in relation to the usual uplink transmission timing (i.e. subframe boundaries followed by the UE otherwise) (exemplarily termed Type B), where Fig. 14a illustrates an uplink transmission which is postponed, i.e. delayed by a transmission timing offset thus starting and ending after the subframe boundaries.
  • Fig. 14b illustrates an uplink transmission which is preponed, i.e. which is advanced in time by a transmission timing offset, thus starting and ending before the subframe boundaries.
  • Fig. 15 illustrates uplink transmissions which are offset by a particular amount of time in relation to the usual uplink transmission timing (i.e. subframe boundaries followed by the UE otherwise) and are also shortened in length (in this example by a one OFDM symbol) (exemplarily termed Type C).
  • Fig. 15a illustrates an uplink transmission where the last OFDM symbol is punctured and the uplink transmission timing is postponed.
  • Fig. 15b illustrates an uplink transmission where the last OFDM symbol is punctured and where the uplink transmission timing is advanced in time.
  • Fig. 15c illustrates an uplink transmission where the first OFDM symbol is punctured and where the uplink transmission timing is advanced in time.
  • Fig. 15d illustrates an uplink transmission where the first OFDM symbol is punctured and the uplink transmission timing is delayed.
  • Fig. 16 illustrates uplink transmissions that are shortened in length, in the illustrated examples by one OFDM symbol (exemplarily termed Type D).
  • Fig. 16a illustrates an uplink transmission with a punctured first OFDM symbol
  • Fig. 16b illustrates an uplink transmission with a punctured last OFDM symbol.
  • a sufficient time gap is available for the CCA can be achieved by always performing the uplink transmissions according to Type C, i.e. with a shortened uplink transmission length and with a particular time offset.
  • Type C i.e. with a shortened uplink transmission length and with a particular time offset.
  • Fig. 17 which exemplarily assumes a time offset to postpone the respective uplink transmission(s) performed by the three UEs, UE1, UE2, and UE3.
  • a CCA gap is created between the first and second uplink burst, and between the second and third uplink burst during which UE2 and UE3 may respectively perform the CCA for their respective uplink transmissions. Therefore, this simple solution would be based on supporting only one type for the uplink transmissions via the unlicensed cell, namely Type C uplink transmissions where the uplink transmission is both shortened and offset by an amount of time with respect to the usually followed subframe boundaries.
  • the last uplink transmission performed by UE3 could also be of type B as illustrated in Fig. 14a or Type A as illustrated in Fig. 13 . Consequently, the last uplink transmission would not be shortened while at the same time ensuring that a sufficient time is available for UE 3 to successfully perform the CCA.
  • Fig. 18 and 19 illustrate uplink transmissions alternately performed according to Types C and A.
  • the CCA gap is created in that UE1 and UE3 perform the uplink transmission according to Type C.
  • Such an uplink transmission sequence can continue indefinitely while ensuring that a suitable CCA gap is created between every two directly-subsequent uplink transmissions. In such a sequence, at least one OFDM symbol of every second uplink transmission is discarded.
  • UE2 could perform its uplink transmission according to type B, i.e. with an additional delay.
  • the first UE could be scheduled to perform an uplink transmission according to type A, while the remaining uplink transmissions could be of type B.
  • the second timing offset applied to the third uplink transmission has to be sufficiently large.
  • the different time offsets are indicated as “transmission timing offset 1" and “transmission timing offset 2" in Fig. 21 .
  • this sequence of uplink transmission types will lead to an increasing timing offset with an increasing number of uplink transmissions, this having the disadvantage that the reception timing at the eNodeB will equally experience an increased time offset which is detrimental to the overall reception performance at the eNodeB.
  • FIG. 22 A different sequence of uplink transmission types is illustrated in Fig. 22 , exemplary for a sequence of three uplink transmissions by three different UEs, namely a type sequence of DBA.
  • the second uplink transmission of Type B performed by UE2 is advanced in time (rather than delayed), which is possible since the first uplink transmission performed by UE1 is performed according to Type D where the last OFDM symbol is discarded.
  • the third uplink transmission performed by UE3 need not be offset, but may take place at the actual uplink timing as given by the subframe boundary of the UE, and in this example may be according to Type A (assuming that no further time gap needs to be created by said third uplink transmission after the third uplink transmission).
  • UE3 may be controlled to perform an uplink transmission according to Type D, where the last OFDM symbol is punctured.
  • Type D Such a sequence is exemplarily illustrated in Fig. 23 , and may equally be continued indefinitely.
  • the first uplink transmission could be performed according to Type A, such that the UE1 uses the normal uplink transmission timing as given by the subframe boundaries and does not shorten its uplink transmission.
  • the second uplink transmission performed by UE2 is performed according to type B, i.e. the start of the uplink transmission is postponed by UE2.
  • a CCA gap is created in front of the second uplink transmission allowing UE2 to perform its CCA successfully.
  • Fig. 17 - 24 it was explained how to selectively apply the first and/or second mechanisms so as to create the necessary CCA gap in the transmission sequence between two subsequent uplink transmissions performed by different UEs.
  • either of the two mechanisms could be used standalone (i.e. without the other one; see e.g. Fig. 17 ).
  • One possible way for a UE to determine which type of uplink transmission to perform is to predefine a suitable type pattern in the UE and eNodeB in said respect. For instance, it may be assumed that the type pattern is defined for all subframes of a radio frame, which is based on the assumption that all these subframes may actually be used for performing an uplink transmission.
  • a possible type pattern for 10 subframes of a radio frame which may be repetitively applied for each radio frame, is: CCCCC,CCCCC, or CACAC,ACACA, or ACACA,CACAC, or DBDBD,BDBDB, or BDBDB,DBD, or DBABD, DBABD.
  • the just presented type patterns are merely examples and it is immediately apparent that many more patterns could be devised.
  • 3GPP may decide to operate the unlicensed cell for uplink and downlink according to a TDD configuration, i.e. such that particular subframes are either for uplink or downlink, possibly further including a special subframe allowing a guard period for switching the RF modules, in a similar manner as the TDD configurations already defined in the standard, as explained in connection with Fig. 5 in the background section. It is assumed for discussion purposes that similar or the same TDD configurations as presented in Fig. 5 in the background section will also be applied to the operation of unlicensed cells. As illustrated in Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 , particular sequences of two and up to four subsequent uplink transmissions (special subframe can be considered an uplink transmission too) need to be at least supported. Correspondingly, particular type patterns could be defined for any of these sequences as will be explained in detail in the following.
  • a sequence of 4 subsequent uplink transmissions (considering the uplink part of a special subframe as a separate uplink transmission) needs to be supported.
  • a possible exemplary type pattern for four subsequent uplink transmissions could be for example CACC.
  • a possible exemplary type pattern for three subsequent uplink transmissions could be for example ACC.
  • a possible exemplary type pattern for two subsequent uplink transmissions could be for example DB. This is exemplarily illustrated in Fig. 25 in connection with the uplink downlink TDD configurations 0, 1 and 2; and is equally applicable to the remaining uplink downlink configurations 3-6 not illustrated in Fig. 25 .
  • a user terminal mobile terminal
  • an eNodeB base station
  • the user terminal and base station is adapted to perform the methods described herein, including corresponding entities to participate appropriately in the methods, such as receiver, transmitter, processors.
  • a computing device or processor may for example be general purpose processors, digital signal processors (DSP), application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) or other programmable logic devices, etc.
  • DSP digital signal processors
  • ASIC application specific integrated circuits
  • FPGA field programmable gate arrays
  • the various embodiments may also be performed or embodied by a combination of these devices.
  • each functional block used in the description of each embodiment described above can be realized by an LSI as an integrated circuit. They may be individually formed as chips, or one chip may be formed so as to include a part or all of the functional blocks. They may include a data input and output coupled thereto.
  • the LSI here may be referred to as an IC, a system LSI, a super LSI, or an ultra LSI depending on a difference in the degree of integration.
  • the technique of implementing an integrated circuit is not limited to the LSI and may be realized by using a dedicated circuit or a general-purpose processor.
  • a FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
  • a reconfigurable processor in which the connections and the settings of circuits cells disposed inside the LSI can be reconfigured may be used.
  • the various embodiments may also be implemented by means of software modules, which are executed by a processor or directly in hardware. Also a combination of software modules and a hardware implementation may be possible.
  • the software modules may be stored on any kind of computer readable storage media, for example RAM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash memory, registers, hard disks, CD-ROM, DVD, etc. It should be further noted that the individual features of the different embodiments may individually or in arbitrary combination be subject matter to another embodiment.

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  1. Station de base radio permettant de programmer des transmissions en liaison montante pour un équipement utilisateur, au moins une cellule non agréée étant configurée en vue d'une communication entre l'équipement utilisateur et la station de base radio,
    où la station de base radio programme une transmission en liaison montante par l'intermédiaire de la cellule non agréée en fonction de l'un parmi au moins les différents types qui suivent de transmissions en liaison montante :
    un premier type de transmission en liaison montante (type A) qui se déroule sur une durée complète de sous trame et qui débute et se termine aux limites de la sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur,
    et au moins l'un parmi :
    un deuxième type de transmission en liaison montante (type B) qui se déroule sur une durée complète de sous trame, la transmission en liaison montante étant décalée d'une quantité prédéterminée de temps par rapport aux limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur de sorte à ce que la transmission en liaison montante du deuxième type débute avant ou après une première limite de sous trame et se termine avant ou après une seconde limite de sous trame qui suit la première limite de sous trame, et
    un troisième type de transmission en liaison montante (type C) qui se déroule sur moins d'une durée complète de sous trame, la transmission en liaison montante étant décalée d'une quantité prédéterminée de temps par rapport aux limites de
    sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur,
    où la station de base radio comprend un processeur et un émetteur qui, en service, programme des transmissions en liaison montante par l'intermédiaire de la cellule non agréée vers le ou les équipements utilisateur, la station de base radio comprenant un récepteur qui, en service, reçoit les transmissions programmées en liaison montante en provenance du ou des équipements utilisateur,
    où la station de base radio programme la transmission en liaison montante de sorte à ce que la transmission programmée en liaison montante soit effectuée par le ou les équipements utilisateur en fonction de l'un des différents types de transmissions en liaison montante de manière à ce que se produise au moins un intervalle de temps sans transmission en liaison montante entre deux transmissions en liaison montante qui se suivent directement, et
    où les limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur sont déterminées par la station de base radio sur la base d'une procédure d'avance de synchronisation effectuée entre l'équipement utilisateur et la station de base radio.
  2. Station de base radio selon la revendication 1, où la station de base radio programme une transmission en liaison montante par l'intermédiaire de la cellule non agréée conformément à un quatrième type supplémentaire de transmissions en liaison montante (type D) qui se déroule sur moins d'une durée complète de sous trame et qui démarre ou se termine aux limites de la sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur.
  3. Station de base radio selon la revendication 1 ou la revendication 2, dans laquelle le processeur, en service, détermine la quantité prédéterminée de temps, où en option, la quantité prédéterminée de temps vaut la moitié de la longueur d'un symbole de modulation OFDM, et
    dans laquelle l'émetteur, en service, indique la quantité prédéterminée de temps à l'équipement utilisateur, où, en option, l'émetteur, en service, indique la quantité prédéterminée de temps en utilisant une signalisation de commande de ressources radio, RRC,
    dans laquelle, en option, au moins une seconde quantité prédéterminée de temps, par laquelle peut être décalée une transmission en liaison montante du deuxième type par rapport aux limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur, représente la longueur d'un symbole de modulation OFDM.
  4. Station de base radio selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, dans laquelle le processeur, en service, détermine le type de transmission en liaison montante pour une transmission en liaison montante à programmer, et où le type déterminé de transmission en liaison montante est indiqué par la station de base radio à au moins un équipement utilisateur devant effectuer la transmission en liaison montante, où, en option, le type déterminé de transmission de liaison montante est indiqué à ce ou à ces équipement utilisateur en même temps qu'une assignation de ressources pour cette transmission en liaison montante, où, en option, le type déterminé de transmission en liaison montante est indiqué dans un champ binaire de l'assignation de ressources transmise à l'équipement utilisateur.
  5. Station de base radio selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, dans laquelle une séquence type est prédéterminée dans l'équipement utilisateur et dans la station de base radio, la séquence type définissant pour chaque sous trame, pour laquelle une transmission en liaison montante est possible, l'un des types différents de transmissions en liaison montante de sorte à ce que l'équipement utilisateur et la station de base radio déterminent le type de transmission en liaison montante pour une transmission en liaison montante sur la base de la séquence type et de la sous trame pour laquelle est programmée la transmission en liaison montante.
  6. Station de base radio selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, dans laquelle l'intervalle de temps entre les deux transmissions en liaison montante qui se suivent directement est utilisable par un autre nœud pour effectuer une estimation de canal libre de la bande non agréée, l'estimation de canal libre déterminant si la cellule non agréée est ou non occupée par une autre transmission, où en option l'autre nœud est un nœud Wi-Fi d'un autre équipement utilisateur.
  7. Équipement utilisateur permettant d'effectuer des transmissions en liaison montante programmées par une station de base radio, où au moins une cellule non agréée est configurée en vue d'une communication entre l'équipement utilisateur et la station de base radio,
    où l'équipement utilisateur est configuré pour effectuer une transmission en liaison montante par l'intermédiaire de la cellule non agréée en fonction de l'un parmi les différents types qui suivent de transmissions en liaison montante :
    un premier type de transmission en liaison montante (type A) qui se déroule sur une durée complète de sous trame et qui débute et se termine aux limites de la sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur,
    et au moins l'un parmi :
    un deuxième type de transmission en liaison montante (type B) qui se déroule sur une durée complète de sous trame, la transmission en liaison montante étant décalée d'une quantité prédéterminée de temps par rapport aux limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur de sorte à ce que la transmission en liaison montante du deuxième type débute avant ou après une première limite de sous trame et se termine avant ou après une seconde limite de sous trame qui suit la première limite de sous trame, et
    un troisième type de transmission en liaison montante (type C) qui se déroule sur moins d'une durée complète de sous trame, la transmission en liaison montante étant décalée d'une quantité prédéterminée de temps par rapport aux limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur,
    dans lequel l'équipement utilisateur comprend un processeur qui, en service, détermine l'un des types de transmission en liaison montante pour une transmission programmée en liaison montante de manière à ce que se produise au moins un intervalle de temps sans transmission en liaison montante entre deux transmissions en liaison montante qui se suivent directement,
    l'équipement utilisateur comprend un émetteur qui, en service, effectuent la transmission en liaison montante en fonction du type déterminé par l'intermédiaire de la cellule non agréée, et
    où les limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur sont déterminées par l'équipement utilisateur sur la base d'une procédure d'avance de synchronisation effectuée entre l'équipement utilisateur et la station de base radio.
  8. Équipement utilisateur selon la revendication 7, où l'équipement utilisateur peut effectuer une transmission en liaison montante par l'intermédiaire de la cellule non agréée conformément à un quatrième type supplémentaire de transmissions en liaison montante (type D) qui se déroule sur moins d'une durée complète de sous trame et qui démarre ou se termine aux limites de la sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur.
  9. Équipement utilisateur selon la revendication 7 ou la revendication 8, où la quantité prédéterminée de temps vaut la moitié de la longueur d'un symbole de modulation OFDM, l'équipement utilisateur comprenant un récepteur qui, en service, reçoit l'indication en provenance de la station de base radio indiquant la quantité prédéterminée de temps,
    dans lequel en option le récepteur, en service, reçoit la quantité prédéterminée de temps en utilisant une signalisation de commande de ressources radio, RRC,
    dans laquelle, en option, au moins une seconde quantité prédéterminée de temps, par laquelle peut être décalée une transmission en liaison montante du deuxième type par rapport aux limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur, représente la longueur d'un symbole de modulation OFDM.
  10. Équipement utilisateur selon l'une des revendications 7 à 9, où l'équipement utilisateur comprend un récepteur qui, en service, reçoit une indication de type en provenance de la station de base radio indiquant le type de transmission en liaison montante à effectuer, où en option le récepteur, en service, reçoit l'indication de type en même temps qu'une assignation de ressources pour cette transmission en liaison montante, où en option l'indication de type se trouve dans un champ binaire de l'assignation de ressources reçue de la station de base radio.
  11. Équipement utilisateur selon l'une des revendications 7 à 10, dans lequel l'équipement utilisateur comprend une mémoire qui, en service, stocke une séquence type définissant pour chaque sous trame, pour laquelle une transmission en liaison montante est possible, l'un des types différents de transmissions en liaison montante, le processeur, en service, déterminant le type de transmission en liaison montante pour une transmission en liaison montante sur la base de la séquence type et de la sous trame pour laquelle est programmée la transmission en liaison montante,
    où en option une première séquence type est prédéterminée pour une séquence de deux transmissions en liaison montante, la première séquence type définissant le troisième type pour la première des deux transmissions en liaison montante et définissant le premier type pour la seconde des deux transmissions en liaison montante,
    où en option une seconde séquence type est prédéterminée pour une séquence de trois transmissions en liaison montante, la seconde séquence type définissant le quatrième type pour la première des trois transmissions en liaison montante, définissant le deuxième type pour la deuxième des trois transmissions en liaison montante et définissant le premier ou le quatrième type pour la troisième des trois transmissions en liaison montante.
  12. Équipement utilisateur selon l'une des revendications 7 à 11, dans lequel la longueur de la transmission en liaison montante du troisième et du quatrième type comprend 13 symboles de modulation OFDM, et où la longueur des transmissions en liaison montante du premier et du deuxième type comprend 14 symboles de modulation OFDM,
    où en option l'émetteur, en service, démarre une transmission en liaison montante par l'intermédiaire d'une cellule agréée avec laquelle l'équipement utilisateur est configuré pour une communication établie entre l'équipement utilisateur et la station de base radio à un instant donné par l'une des limites de sous trame.
  13. Système comprenant au moins un équipement utilisateur est une station de base radio, où au moins une cellule non agréée est configurée en vue d'une communication entre l'équipement utilisateur et la station de base radio, où le ou les équipements utilisateur sont configurés pour effectuer une transmission en liaison montante par l'intermédiaire de la cellule d'un agréé conformément à l'un au moins des différents types qui suivent de transmissions en liaison montante :
    un premier type de transmission en liaison montante (type A) qui se déroule sur une durée complète de sous trame et qui débute et se termine aux limites de la sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur,
    et au moins l'un parmi :
    un deuxième type de transmission en liaison montante (type B) qui se déroule sur une durée complète de sous trame, la transmission en liaison montante étant décalée d'une quantité prédéterminée de temps par rapport aux limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur de sorte à ce que la transmission en liaison montante du deuxième type débute avant ou après une première limite de sous trame et se termine avant ou après une seconde limite de sous trame qui suit la première limite de sous trame, et
    un troisième type de transmission en liaison montante (type C) qui se déroule sur moins d'une durée complète de sous trame, la transmission en liaison montante étant décalée d'une quantité prédéterminée de temps par rapport aux limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur,
    dans lequel la station de base radio comprend un processeur et un émetteur qui, en service, programment des transmissions en liaison montante par l'intermédiaire de la cellule non agréée vers le ou les équipements utilisateur,
    dans lequel l'équipement utilisateur comprend un récepteur qui, en service, reçoit une assignation de ressources en provenance de la station de base radio qui programme une transmission en liaison montante, l'équipement utilisateur comprenant un processeur qui, en service, détermine l'un des types de transmission en liaison montante pour la transmission programmée en liaison montante, et
    l'équipement utilisateur comprend un émetteur qui, en service, effectue la transmission en liaison montante conformément au type déterminé par l'intermédiaire de la cellule non agréée,
    dans lequel la station de base radio comprend un récepteur qui, en service, reçoit les transmissions programmées en liaison montante,
    dans lequel les transmissions programmées en liaison montante sont effectuées par le ou les équipements utilisateur conformément à l'un des types différents de transmissions en liaison montante de manière à ce qu'au moins un intervalle de temps sans transmission en liaison montante se produise entre deux transmissions en liaison montante qui se suivent directement, et
    dans lequel les limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur sont déterminées par l'équipement utilisateur et par la station de base radio sur la base d'une procédure d'avance de synchronisation effectuée entre l'équipement utilisateur et la station de base radio.
  14. Procédé de mise en œuvre d'un équipement utilisateur permettant d'effectuer des transmissions en liaison montante programmées par une station de base radio, où au moins une cellule non agréée est configurée en vue d'une communication entre l'équipement utilisateur et la station de base radio,
    dans lequel l'équipement utilisateur est configuré pour effectuer une transmission en liaison montante par l'intermédiaire de la cellule non agréée en fonction de l'un parmi au moins les différents types qui suivent de transmissions en liaison montante :
    un premier type de transmission en liaison montante (type A) qui se déroule sur une durée complète de sous trame et qui débute et se termine aux limites de la sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur,
    et au moins l'un parmi :
    un deuxième type de transmission en liaison montante (type B) qui se déroule sur une durée complète de sous trame, la transmission en liaison montante étant décalée d'une quantité prédéterminée de temps par rapport aux limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur de sorte à ce que la transmission en liaison montante du deuxième type débute avant ou après une première limite de sous trame et se termine avant ou après une seconde limite de sous trame qui suit la première limite de sous trame, et
    un troisième type de transmission en liaison montante (type C) qui se déroule sur moins d'une durée complète de sous trame, la transmission en liaison montante étant décalée d'une quantité prédéterminée de temps par rapport aux limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur,
    le procédé comprenant les étapes suivantes effectuées par l'équipement utilisateur :
    la détermination de l'un des types de transmission en liaison montante pour une transmission programmée en liaison montante de manière à ce que se produise au moins un intervalle de temps sans transmission en liaison montante entre deux transmissions en liaison montante qui se suivent directement,
    l'exécution de la transmission en liaison montante conformément au type déterminé par l'intermédiaire de la cellule non agréée, et
    dans lequel les limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur sont déterminées par l'équipement utilisateur sur la base d'une procédure d'avance de synchronisation effectuée entre l'équipement utilisateur et la station de base radio.
  15. Procédé de mise en œuvre d'une station de base radio permettant d'effectuer des transmissions en liaison montante pour un équipement utilisateur, où au moins une cellule non agréée est configurée en vue d'une communication entre l'équipement utilisateur et la station de base radio,
    dans lequel la station de base radio programme une transmission en liaison montante par l'intermédiaire de la cellule non agréée conformément à au moins l'un parmi les différents types qui suivent de transmissions en liaison montante :
    un premier type de transmission en liaison montante (type A) qui se déroule sur une durée complète de sous trame et qui débute et se termine aux limites de la sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur,
    et au moins l'un parmi :
    un deuxième type de transmission en liaison montante (type B) qui se déroule sur une durée complète de sous trame, la transmission en liaison montante étant décalée d'une quantité prédéterminée de temps par rapport aux limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur de sorte à ce que la transmission en liaison montante du deuxième type débute avant ou après une première limite de sous trame et se termine avant ou après une seconde limite de sous trame qui suit la première limite de sous trame, et
    un troisième type de transmission en liaison montante (type C) qui se déroule sur moins d'une durée complète de sous trame, la transmission en liaison montante étant décalée d'une quantité prédéterminée de temps par rapport aux limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur,
    le procédé comprenant les étapes suivantes effectuées par la station de base radio :
    la programmation de transmissions en liaison montante par l'intermédiaire de la cellule non agréée vers le ou les équipements utilisateur,
    la réception des transmissions programmées en liaison montante en provenance du ou des équipements utilisateur,
    dans lequel la station de base radio programme la transmission en liaison montante de sorte à ce que la transmission programmée en liaison montante soit effectuée par le ou les équipements utilisateur conformément à l'un des différents types de transmissions en liaison montante de manière à ce que se produise au moins un intervalle de temps sans transmission en liaison montante entre deux transmissions en liaison montante qui se suivent directement,
    dans lequel les limites de sous trame suivies par l'équipement utilisateur sont déterminées par la station de base radio sur la base d'une procédure d'avance de synchronisation effectuée entre l'équipement utilisateur et la station de base radio.
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